Modern Science and Anarchism
Contents
I. Two fundamental tendencies in Society: the popular and the governmental.-The Kinship of Anarchism and the Popular-creative Tendency
II. The Intellectual Movement of the XVIII century; its fundamental traits: the investigation of all phenomena by the scientific method.-The Stagnation of Thought at the Beginning of the XIX century.-The Awakening of Socialism: its influence upon the development of science.-The Fifties
III. Auguste Comte's Attempt to build up a Synthetic Philosophy.-The causes of his failure: the religious explanation of the moral sense in man
IV. The Flowering of the Exact Sciences in 1856-62.-The Development of the Mechanical World-Conception, embracing the Development of Human Ideas and Institutions.-A Theory of Evolution
V. The Possibility of a New Synthetic Philosophy.-Herbert Spencer's attempt: why it failed.-The Method not sustained.-A False Conception of "The Struggle for Existence."
VI. The Causes of this Mistake.-The Teaching of the Church: "the World is steeped in Sin."-The Government's inculcation of the same view of "Man's Radical Perversity."-The Views of Modern Anthropology upon this subject.-The Development of forms of Life by the "Masses," and the Law.-Its Two-fold Character.
VII. The Place of Anarchism in Science.-Its Endeavor to Formulate a Synthetic Conception of the World.-Its Object
VIII. Its origin.-How Its Ideal is Developed by the Natural-Scientific Method
IX. A Brief Summary of the Conclusions Reached by Anarchism: Law.- Morality.-Economic Ideas- The Government
X. Continuation: -Methods of Action.-The Understanding of Revolutions and their Birth.-The Creative Ingenuity of the People.-Conclusion
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Modern Science and Anarchism
Contents
I. Two fundamental tendencies in Society: the popular and the governmental.-The Kinship of Anarchism and the Popular-creative Tendency
II. The Intellectual Movement of the XVIII century; its fundamental traits: the investigation of all phenomena by the scientific method.-The Stagnation of Thought at the Beginning of the XIX century.-The Awakening of Socialism: its influence upon the development of science.-The Fifties
III. Auguste Comte's Attempt to build up a Synthetic Philosophy.-The causes of his failure: the religious explanation of the moral sense in man
IV. The Flowering of the Exact Sciences in 1856-62.-The Development of the Mechanical World-Conception, embracing the Development of Human Ideas and Institutions.-A Theory of Evolution
V. The Possibility of a New Synthetic Philosophy.-Herbert Spencer's attempt: why it failed.-The Method not sustained.-A False Conception of "The Struggle for Existence."
VI. The Causes of this Mistake.-The Teaching of the Church: "the World is steeped in Sin."-The Government's inculcation of the same view of "Man's Radical Perversity."-The Views of Modern Anthropology upon this subject.-The Development of forms of Life by the "Masses," and the Law.-Its Two-fold Character.
VII. The Place of Anarchism in Science.-Its Endeavor to Formulate a Synthetic Conception of the World.-Its Object
VIII. Its origin.-How Its Ideal is Developed by the Natural-Scientific Method
IX. A Brief Summary of the Conclusions Reached by Anarchism: Law.- Morality.-Economic Ideas- The Government
X. Continuation: -Methods of Action.-The Understanding of Revolutions and their Birth.-The Creative Ingenuity of the People.-Conclusion
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Modern Science and Anarchism

Modern Science and Anarchism

by Peter Kropotkin
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Contents
I. Two fundamental tendencies in Society: the popular and the governmental.-The Kinship of Anarchism and the Popular-creative Tendency
II. The Intellectual Movement of the XVIII century; its fundamental traits: the investigation of all phenomena by the scientific method.-The Stagnation of Thought at the Beginning of the XIX century.-The Awakening of Socialism: its influence upon the development of science.-The Fifties
III. Auguste Comte's Attempt to build up a Synthetic Philosophy.-The causes of his failure: the religious explanation of the moral sense in man
IV. The Flowering of the Exact Sciences in 1856-62.-The Development of the Mechanical World-Conception, embracing the Development of Human Ideas and Institutions.-A Theory of Evolution
V. The Possibility of a New Synthetic Philosophy.-Herbert Spencer's attempt: why it failed.-The Method not sustained.-A False Conception of "The Struggle for Existence."
VI. The Causes of this Mistake.-The Teaching of the Church: "the World is steeped in Sin."-The Government's inculcation of the same view of "Man's Radical Perversity."-The Views of Modern Anthropology upon this subject.-The Development of forms of Life by the "Masses," and the Law.-Its Two-fold Character.
VII. The Place of Anarchism in Science.-Its Endeavor to Formulate a Synthetic Conception of the World.-Its Object
VIII. Its origin.-How Its Ideal is Developed by the Natural-Scientific Method
IX. A Brief Summary of the Conclusions Reached by Anarchism: Law.- Morality.-Economic Ideas- The Government
X. Continuation: -Methods of Action.-The Understanding of Revolutions and their Birth.-The Creative Ingenuity of the People.-Conclusion

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781987005073
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date: 10/19/2018
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.23(d)
Age Range: 12 Years

About the Author

Peter Kropotkin (December 9, 1842 – February 8, 1921) was a Russian activist, revolutionary, scientist, geographer and philosopher who advocated anarcho-communism.
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